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20 THE DICTIONARY OF GARDENING, 
Adiantum—continued. 
basal pinnules ovate; pinnulets very small, shortly stipitate, 
slightly lobed, the terminal ones cuneate, the others mostly 
rhomboid. sori two to four to a pinnule, placed in a sinus of 
the marginal lobes. 1887. Stove hybrid. 
A. Pacotti is a variety of A. cuneatum. 
A. Paradisez (Miss Paradise’s). sti. and rachis slender, 
naked, brownish-black. fronds deltoid, tripinnate, glabrous, 
6in. long and nearly as broad; lower pinne deltoid, unequal, 
cut away on the lower side at base, conspicuously petiolate ; 
ultimate segments rhomboid, jin. to Jin. long. sori one to 
three to a segment, |roadly reniform, one to two lines long. 
Cape Colony, 1889. Greenhouse. 
A. pentadactylon (five-fingered). A variety of A. trapeziforme. 
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Adiantum— continued. 
A. roseum (rosy). fronds, when young, rosy-tinted. A dwarf, 
garden variety. Greenhouse. 
A. Sanctz-Catherinz (St. Catherine's) 
A. trapeziforme. 
A. scabrum (scurfy). A variety of A. ethiopiceum. 
A. fest ae) (cut-fronded). sti. and rachises remote in 
varying degrees. fronds numerous, with stoutish, conspicuous, 
ebeneous rachises; pinnules small, commonly minute, most of 
them deeply cut into narrow lobes. sori small, lunate, 
sparingly i ieee in a perfect state. 1887. Stove or green- 
house. though stated to be a seedling from A. @mulum, 
this is doubtless a form of A. cuneatum. 
A. Schneideri (Schneider's). A handsome Fern, of graceful 
A variety of 
Fic. 28. ADIANTUM NOVA:-CALEDONLE. 
A. ee (feathery). fronds about 8in. long, pale green. 
1894. A pretty Maidenhair, of compact habit, resembling 
A. fragrantissimum and A. cuneatum Pacotti. 
A. Reginze (Queen’s). sti. slender, black, shining. fronds 
shorter, broader, and more leathery than in A. Ghiesbreghtii 
(one of the supposed parents of this hybrid). sori sparingly 
produced, oblong, in an interrupted row round the outer 
margin. 1887. Stove. 
A. rhodophyllum (rose-fronded).* fronds evergreen, triangular, 
tripinnate, elegantly spreading, about lft. long; pinne few, 
pinnate or eae, the upper undivided ones 14in. long, and, as 
well as the lin. pinnules, rhomboid-trapezoid, and set on hair- 
like, black stalks; young fronds Ty ape: sori at the apices 
i: ee lobes, but much broken up. 1884. A beautiful, stove 
ybri 
habit, raised from spores of A. Waltoni difusum. The pinne 
are long and deeply cut, after the manner of A. cuneatum 
dissectum, and the habit of the plant is dwarf and robust. 
894. 
A. tenellum (tender). A pretty and delicate form, much 
resembling A. gracillimum, but with better-shaped fronds. 1894. 
A, tenerum Bessonianum (Besson’s). fronds having crowded, 
imbricating, kidney-shaped pinnze. West Indies, 1896. 
A. oa a (quadrangular), sti. slightly hairy, 1ft. or more 
in length. fronds pedato-tripinnate, lft. long, 1sft. broad ; ter- 
minal pinna spear-shaped, 6in. to Yin. long, Sin. to 6in. broad ; 
(ee deep green, spear-shaped, 2sin. to Sin. long, slightly 
obed, rounded on their upper side, cuneate-truncate on their 
lower side at base. soi short, very narrow, disposed at the 
tips of the lobes down both sides. Brazil. Stove. 
